skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Colin Percival is obviously a smart and very skilled guy but I am mystified why people on HN keep recommending tarsnap, it seems a terrible product for almost any imaginable audience.

If I'm a normal end user, I will probably get a vastly easier to use product at about 1-10% of the price from Backblaze. And if I'm a serious business that can easily afford the > 10x premium and engineering to configure the backup I probably wouldn't want to entrust it to some company with what looks to be a bus factor of one and the apparent technical limitation that a restore might cost me a few DAYS of unanticipated downtime [1].

I mean, sure, if you are some unix nerd wanting to backup your dotfiles and a few small documents (or repos) for maybe around ~$50/year, why not go with some artisanal backup service for HN street cred (and a laudable open source donation policy)? But what other good use cases are there?

Am I missing something obvious?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25621093
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And we wonder why Red Hat would do this. I think it's for this right here.

CentOS was TOO GOOD after so long; even C-level execs were happy to sign off on using it.
Visual Studio 2008 shipped a week late because of a circular dependency (2010)
That's what i was thinking -- this is Twitter's version of substack.
You can literally just sell it.
> These remarks are presented for the interest of passerbys, not because the comment I reply to has merit and deserves them.

Ouff.

> AMD was a chipmaker with skilled engineers on staff and a growth story where they could seize market share with better technology. Gamestop is a retailer with retail clerks on staff and a story where increasing competition from PC and console app stores slowly eats away at their market share. Exact same thing, right?

Do your due diligence this is just one, https://www.gmedd.com, there have been many others and they all converge to the same argument. GME is worth much more than the $10 PT given by analysts.

> Counterpoint 2: Saying the price target is wrong is one thing, and may in many circumstances be eminently defensible. Saying the correct price is $50-$150 is another.

Except citron was wrong in every single price target they have given by more often than not an order magnitude, except for 1. If you pay enough attention, you will see that many of the same 'pages' play both the bull and bear game, if only to come out and say they were correct.

> Counterpoint 3: This exemplifies the thinking going on here. "I don't understand the stock market and think someone is screwing us over. Let's define our own alternate reality, and gang up on them for revenge! Revolution!"

Had you done your due diligence and paid attention to the situation as it unfolded, you'd have seen that the market made sense, the stock was over shorted and in no way reflective of the actual price targets created by various models and analyses such as the one I linked above.

> Last time we saw that show was January 6. For a few people, who get out at the right time, this will be a much more successful revolution, but on the whole, it succeeds only with a transient disruption, and harm the individual would-be revolutionaries the most.

We saw that show in every single revolution. This only reinforces the belief that the average proletariat is getting screwed over and manipulated by the same class of people. Hint, it was the proletariat that paid for the greed, not the institutions, the hedge funds or the MMs. It is the proletariat that are stuck between a rock and a hard place, it is the proletariat that are getting manipulated into intra class wars.
Will they just run it into the ground? Article is paywalled.
I thought so as well but if I recall correctly someone explicitly disproved that. Should be fairly easy to confirm by checking the traffic in the network tab - unless the ad networks themselves take 60 seconds to respond there should be no reason for that much delay.
If you are a European store, and say you receive in EUR and charge in another currency it is highly disadvantageous to you. The payment processor usually charges a fee to convert the currency. Stripe for example charges 2% to convert (which is worse than the 1.5% interchange fee increase, and is is additive to it). You are significantly worse off in this situation.

Also if you are a British consumer simply pay in Euros, and let your card do the conversion for you - you typically get the interbank rate with most modern banks.
Presumably Blu-ray Disc recordable. (More commonly abbreviated to BD-R, rather than BR-R.)
Ziff Davis sites do this. Very aggravating.
> invest 10% of your salary for a 4% annual return

Except we have had bull markets for several years now. It has been an excellent time to be in the market. S&P500 returns for the past 5 years:

2016: 9.54%
2017: 19.42%
2018: -6.24%
2019: 28.88%
2020: 16.26%
I made likely what the post I answered to found unlikely. I could not find reliable stats for gay wages in Norway. Gender paygap is however very well monitored by http://www.ssb.no/ Arguably my point is not great. If you really want to know about gay conditions in Norway, try this report https://www.ssb.no/a/english/publikasjoner/pdf/rapp_201038_e...
Good call out, though I'd put it under the umbrella of expensive, since someone banning or throttling you is a symptom of it.
I don't understand the claim that it's a 'middle class' phenomenon, it's just where the nerdy side of the work class youth ends up. That was I've observed first hand and from my personal experience.
> uncertain and difficult and not likely to last long

> difficult or uncertain

> unable to balance very well

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rocky

The parent to your comment is correct, as are you about the specific reference in this case.

The etymology of the Rocky Mountains is unrelated to either:

> The Rocky Mountains were so called by 1802, translating French Montagnes Rocheuses, first applied to the Canadian Rockies. "The name is not directly self-descriptive but is an approximate translation of the name of the former Native American people here known as the Assiniboin .... The mountains are in fact not noticeably rocky"

https://www.etymonline.com/word/rocky
The same idiots who will leverage their knowldge to earn 3x the salary of Canada and EU while working on cutting edge SWE?

I am sure they will regret buying huge mansions and retire early in their home towns.
If the goal is to reduce consumption in order to reduce pollution, then simply raise taxes. No need to make it more complicated. Keep raising the tax until consumption is reduced to desired levels.

> Repairable devices means devices that live longer,

Is there proof of this for tiny devices with tons of integrated chips and processors requiring specialized equipment and knowledge to fix?
I'd like to sell you some cough medication, it's all natural, made from a concentrate of two south-american plant called "coca" and "tabaco", everyone who tries keep asking for more, even when we increased the price !

Too bad the big bad governement regulation prevent me from selling it. It's absolutely ridiculous, all my customers wants it and I pay my taxes.
Perhaps that's true in the US. Here in Eastern Europe, University education was pretty elite (in terms of intellectual requirements) before the "democratization" of higher ed. Heck, high school before the war was most likely mentally harder than many higher degrees are today.
> Mastercard are likely to not change the FPS fee as Vocalink is easy to supplant.

What on earth makes you think this is true? Do you have any idea how complex it is to set up an inter-bank payment scheme? Vocalink are not even remotely easy to supplant, banks will just pass the extra costs onto merchants and wash their hands of it. There’s no profit in providing free financial services.

> For example card not present transactions are going to have their fees jacked up

No doubt. MasterCard and Visa are both looking to make sure profits stay healthy. But if there’s something I know for sure, it’s that both companies know how to extract their pound of flesh. They’re masters of creating new fees, if they want to increase fees on card not present, then they will. If they can’t do it directly, they’ll find a way to do it indirectly.

> For instance topping up your brokerage account with chargebacks possible would be very problematic.

Chargebacks are not a simple one-size-fits-all thing. There are hundreds of pages of rules outline when you can and can’t raise chargebacks. There are also ways to allow merchants to immunise themselves against chargebacks.

It’s already possible to top up brokerage accounts using a Credit/Debit card. That’s because carve outs already exist in the chargeback rules which make it very difficult for a customer to raise a valid chargeback in those scenarios.
That is not consistent with the holdings of WSB members and the amount of volume.
A tale as old as time.
“ Mr. Durov said that 94 percent of Telegram’s 25 million new users came from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.

Some have come to Telegram out of privacy fears after WhatsApp informed its customers that it was sharing information with its parent company, Facebook.”

But sure, let’s frame it as the far right flooding the platform.
This is a really smart acquisition for Twitter to make. I'm subscribed to a number of substacks (and Patreons) that I only discovered through creators on Twitter.

Job #1 for twitter should be making it easy to subscribe to Revue newsletters from within Twitter. Please do not put the team that rolled out Fleets in charge of Job #1 ;)
Sockets, Cores, and Threads, oh my
Grindr’s Chinese owner has sold it to a US owner, forced by CFIUS (https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/3/6/21168079/grin...).
Assuming that they have GBP prices. When I purchase from abroad, I very very rarely pay in my local currency. The payment processor or (preferably) my bank performs the currency conversion, on my end of the transaction.
It would probably be a better time to short GME when your broker hadn't banned it.
When I travel from one town to another I don't pay different amounts for my phone calls or data. It should not be any different crossing a border within the EU.

It is absolutely fair, mobile operators were cross-charging ridiculous amounts to serve each others customers just so they could each milk the others customers. This type of price fixing was wrong and the EU put an end to it.

As far as I can tell the telcos have survived, they're still making money and investing in 5G and the consumers are paying less. How is that not a win-win other than for shareholders of the biggest telcos?
The missing screenshots are at

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Merkaartor/Screenshots
The author doesn't touch on it but I think there is a larger theme here, which is that there are more than one path to your goals and most of the detail we obsess over end up not mattering as much as we initially thought.

One example I like is the duolingo app. It will never turn you into a fluent or even good speaker of a new language. However, it makes you learn words which will more or less stick you after a while.

Once you get in a situation where you need to speak that language you will suck, but do a one week immersion and all that preliminary work you did will supercharge your speaking ability.
> Hell is other people, best bet since the time of the plague, you want to survive go where others aren't.

I have played for a while on a Minecraft "anarchy server"[1]. You could consider it a very, very rough approximation of how anarchy would play out in real life. Your statement (if you are in a fixed location, people will find a way) closely mirrors my experience.

Even though, in the Minecraft natural environment, there are things that are dangerous (e.g. wild animals, "monsters", ravines, etc.), nothing comes close to the danger of meeting another player, possibly armed.

If you are a new player, the most challenging part is escaping spawn (the area where new players start from, which is also the only crowded area in the game). This is pretty hard because spawn is a wasteland with no natural resources left (in Minecraft you have a hunger meter so if you can't find food you will eventually die), and in addition spawn is populated by armed players who kill new players as a pastime.

Once you get to about 20 kilometres from spawn (20k blocks in Minecraft) you start finding food (trees from which you can get fruit, wood for building fishing poles, seeds that you can plant to start a small farm). However, you can't stay in the same place for long, because in a few weeks at most, some other player will find your base and steal your stuff and/or destroy the base.

Once you get to about a hundred kilometres from spawn (100k blocks in Minecraft), you can build a temporary base and hope that it will last a few months (mine lasted about 3 months).

Currently I have a base that is over one million blocks from spawn (i.e. more than 1000 kms) and I expect this may last for a longer period, maybe even years, so I'm building larger structures.

Obviously this is just a Minecraft server and doesn't accurately reflect real life.

Some elements are realistic, for example travelling speed[2], or the way natural resources are either renewable (plants, animals) or non renewable (minerals).

Some other elements are not that realistic, for example the number of players on the server is way smaller than the population of a typical city. This means that the "safe distance" from spawn might not reflect the safe distance from a major city in real life.

Also, spawn is the only area with a high population. There are some larger bases across the map, but even the largest ones have a population of a few dozens players at most.

Another element that is not realistic is obviously construction. In real life, building a home or a farm means a lot of hard work, whereas in Minecraft you can do it in a few hours.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2b2t

[2] walking speed is about 5 km/h, travelling through a "nether highway" you can go at about 45km/h so this could be compared to motorised transport in real life
What did you dislike about Fleets rollout?
Our CS department newsletter once had cartoons featuring snakes illustrating both adders and half-adders, the latter being the victim of an ax.
I don't know why you are bringing Facebook into this. Its business model is completely different, afaik it doesn't offer paid subscription to opt out of all tracking. This is known as straw man fallacy - misrepresenting someone's position and then rebut that.

What you are suggesting is not like "women should be allowed to vote" it's akin to "women must vote".
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Light farming and hunting won’t work unless something like >50% of the population dies off quickly. Even then you’d still need to have everyone spread out pretty evenly across the countryside, be able to learn how to plant and do it on time. You’d be going back to subsistence farming which is extremely hard work. Fertilizer and fuel for tractors would not be replenished. You’d have to learn how to save seeds, irrigate without power and pumps, eventually how to plow with draft animals. If you aren’t already doing this now chances are you wouldn’t make it. That’s the problem I have with collapse fantasies, you’re either all in now or you’re dead. The safer bet is on working to prevent a collapse since that’s something you can do now that probably has immediate payoff unlike going all in on prepping.
Is there any hyperscaler that publicly disclose that they run centos?
BDFL is not about taking any code that people throw at you. Look at LKML at how many iteration patches go through before they are merged.
It's possible the attacker only serves up the Chrome exploit to some selected group of visitors, rather than anyone who visits the site.
Melvins “bail outs” were agreements with other firms. “Wall St” is doing fine on this.

Citadel must be loving their Robinhood order flow right now.
So does gnid phone home and get the unique id?

AFAIK the article said that pfsense contacted their site somehow.
Me too. I’m really not optimistic about the content that Twitter will curate here; I worry that they’ll out-compete substack by peddling their usual outrage addiction, perhaps not right away but in time. The content that one might see on substack will be eventually buried on Twitter in exchange for the content that is most likely to make you click links. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong.
>You never hear about people losing money in Vegas, only about that one time someone won big

Given that some of WSB's most famous posts are 'loss porn', you don't seem very familiar with it.
Your snark aside, I pay $5 per month for Backblaze to backup my entire PC. I would pay many multiples more for rsync.
When it comes to replication & automatic failover in PG what is the 2021 gold standard setup?
I subscribe to peloton but can’t see myself subscribing to this.

I subscribe to peloton because I get new content every single day, live rides and even things like T-shirt’s shipped to me when I hit milestones. This feels like a membership but without any particular level of membership benefits.

I’m sure you will find a market though and hope you are hugely successful!
Yeah, I guess what I'm saying is: think of the state the world would have to be in for you to lose all your redundant backups except the paper ones.

In that world, would you really want this data back so badly that you're going to scan it all in from a giant pile of paper?

Again, I'm not saying that your data isn't actually that important to you, I'm just personally having a hard time imagining any data is or ever will be that important to me.
Ask HN: How does remuneration typically work within a startup?
I've been having a chat to a friend about their role in a startup and I would like to learn more about the process of remuneration from those with experience. I understand that it will differ from company to company.

Reason I ask is that they are quite attached to the company and have been working there for 5 years and (until recently) haven't had a pay rise, ever. This was odd to me because without the bare minimum of an inflation raise, they are actually losing money every year.

They had to speak up when they found out their co-worker was getting paid more for the same role (and was objectively less efficient at their role). They stuck with them (company) through tough times but now the company is doing well they are hiring others for the same role and those with zero experience are getting paid very close to what they are currently making. And that became another confrontation because they aren't looking after their long-term employees and were hoping they wouldn't say anything.

I get from a business point of view that if you're able to get away with paying less you will but this sounds like another startup that likes to treat everyone "like family" until they selectively choose not to.

What can one do in this scenario? Is it common for a startup offer "shares" in the company instead of straight money? Or for them to keep quiet about pay rises (like the last 5 years) and hope the employee never brings it up (performance review = lets review what you did without discussing anything about pay)? Is there something one can do to take advantage of this situation without risking them denying (or giving a little) pay raise and essentially "wasting" the last 5 years?
Show HN: DocuSutra – Customizable data capture for docs like invoices, bills etc
Hi HN,

Srikanth here, co-founder of DocuSutra (https://docusutra.com). Excited to show our product, which helps with customizable data capture for documents like invoices, bills, purchase orders etc.

As part of our previous work assignments, we were helping our clients with data extraction from documents like invoices, lading bills etc. We relied on cloud based solutions like GCP Vision, AWS Textract etc to do the heavy lifting for us. One of the key drawbacks we noticed is the lack of ability to accommodate the custom requirements like specifying additional custom fields, table columns etc into their models. This resulted in writing quite a bit of glue code to address the custom requirements. And additionally, whenever there are format changes, we ended up reworking the glue code to accommodate them.

With our current solution, we are enabling the end user to teach the system to act as per the requirements. All that needs to be done is to tag the relevant portions of the documents with appropriate labels. And the system is sensitive enough to learn with a very few (~5) document samples. In case of any format changes, all that needs to be done is to teach the system with the new documents. No further need of developer intervention.

We tried to make DocuSutra as easy to use as possible to get started with. Currently, it is in beta and free to use. In any case, there will always be a free tier (no credit card requirements).

Thanks and looking forward to your feedback!
Google warns of ‘novel social engineering method’ to hack security researchers
I don’t even work with semantic technologies, but I just love the structure and completeness of arguments in the space. I suppose I should not make enemies by being specific, but compare this comment to the average (or even 90th percentile) argument on almost any other topic.

Although it looks like HN now needs to implement a “download the Kindle“ feature :-)
The kumara really bolsters the theory https://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2205
> proper include path in CFLAGS

This makes no sense. Preprocessor options have no place in CFLAGS, which is for compiler options. I guess you meant CPPFLAGS? Putting a preprocessor option on CFLAGS is always wrong and expected to fail.

> But distribution that i use installs it in

If your distribution installs headers outside of the preprocessor path (or somewhere inside CPATH or C_INCLUDE_PATH), then I'd say that this distribution is broken: it has not installed the library, just copied the files somewhere. The makefile is then, correctly, expected to fail. It's just as if you had unzipped the library on /tmp, of course you would not expect the compiler to find it!
So much fluff in this article. Went in expecting to see OLED panel prices have come down.

Though notoriously this is one of those industries where new technologies move at a glacial pace
> By the 1930s, IBM was producing complex electromechanical accounting machines for data processing, controlled by plugboards and relays.

And, crucially, supplying them to Nazi Germany to help run the holocaust.
Open Source Covid Vaccine
If the end result is that someone who could vote in the last election cannot vote in the next election, we need a better idea.
Well, a large part of Hacker News userbase is from EU and UK, and buying from merchants located in other countries is quite usual. This will likely affect enough people in the site to be considered relevant.
Fair point re webhooks, though you could ask the owners for it. The atom solution is nicer, and I'd probably do it even if I owned the project, but it's still just polling.

It always bugs me that everything distributed inevitably devolves into polling...
That sounds like you agree with the parent, but your tone suggests disagreement?
They already bought another electric vehicle charging company an EMSP which connects the users with the companies that have the charging stations. That seems to be going ok and the thing with the UK is the largest one owns like 90% of the stations so they basically have a stranglehold on the UK market. Also, I know one of their main (maybe largest) competitiors are running themselves into the ground.

Source: I work for the competitor